Ron Perlman
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"Ronald N." ""Ron"" "Perlman" is an American television, film, and voice acting/voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)/Beauty and the Beast (for which he won a Golden Globe), as the comic book character Hellboy in both 2004's Hellboy (film)/Hellboy and its 2008 sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and as Clarence "Clay" Morrow in television series Sons of Anarchy. Perlman is a frequent collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, also having roles in his films Cronos (film)/Cronos, Blade II, and Pacific Rim (film)/Pacific Rim. He is also known for his voice-over work as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (series)/Fallout, Clayface in Batman: The Animated Series, Deathstroke/Slade in the animated series Teen Titans (TV series)/Teen Titans, The Lich in Adventure Time, The Stabbington Brothers in Disney's animated film Tangled, and as the narrator of the television series 1000 Ways to Die.

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I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

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I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

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I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

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I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

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I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

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I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

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You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

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I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

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